#Boston, where a famous Adams once (wisely) said: “Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.” … a fact I keep in mind daily.

October 18, 2025

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

NO KINGS. Bring back the NIH, NSF and American science NOW!! Cc: @jeremymberg.bsky.social @drdrtsai.bsky.social @davidcflood.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

Gotta get me some funner “chats”

Come hear MPEC investigators share their research at #CROI2025 ! We have several posters during today’s session at 2:30pm PST. @caitlindugdale.bsky.social @anneneilan.bsky.social @andreaciaranello.bsky.social @iddocjen.bsky.social @mgh-id.bsky.social

Going to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections? Here's an event for you. p2a.co/YS8dsxA

Aka corruption!! Keep up the Tesla boycotts.

Um - hi 2025. When are you over again? H/T to my best collaborator-friend for this one.

If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi… Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla. Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

New article up in The Scientist the-scientist.com/federal-empl...

Some good-ish news from NIH “Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again” As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal. Martin Luther King

If you have a: - Credit card - Checking account - Savings account - Mortgage - Car loan - Student loan - Venmo account The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

Senate Republicans just *BLOCKED* Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

Stop. It. Call your reps. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

If only the Senate Finance Committee had a Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

He’s right again.

Uhhhhhh

The rate of confirmed #influenza hospitalisations in the United States is the highest in at least 15 seasons (as far as Report data extends). Latest data from US CDC to end of Week 6 (08-FEB-2025). That's a week ago of course.

Because we all still deserve to lolz.

Musk and DOGE are so dangerous and incompetent they fired more than 300 staff at the NNSA only to have to call them back when they realized they were involved with nuclear security. There is no Oops! with nuclear weapons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We prefer those who abide by the constitution while saving us 🙌

hi Texas. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/08/m...

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

They won’t ever learn will they

Your 'doom quote' for today: “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.” --Søren Kierkegaard

The legendary Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) gone, just like that. Since 1951, these disease detectives have hit the pavement and secured vital information needed to face emerging threats to our lives.

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who would by very disappointed in all of this BS but would never, ever stop fighting (or getting his photo taken)

New York health department has confirmed a case of clade I mpox in a returning traveller who visited E.Africa. This is the 4th case of clade I mpox in the US. #Mpox remains public health emergency of international concern with multiple outbreaks across Africa. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

stop. it. popular.info/p/breaking-n...

And while we’re at it, they need to just stop it. STOP. it. Cc: @jabarocas.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov popular.info/p/trump-main...

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

I need to get my ass to bed.